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00:10Welcome to Who's Number One, I'm Trey Wingo.
00:12It is the mocking chant of derision you hear at college basketball games.
00:17Overrated!
00:20Let's face it, it's one of the unkindest brands you can burn into an athlete or a team or an
00:24event or an award
00:25because it says that they've somehow fallen short of all those grand expectations.
00:29They never quite measured up to the hype.
00:32But there is some consolation in being overrated and it's this.
00:35To be a nothing, you've got to have been a something first.
00:38And if you're going to be a bust, at least you know there was a time when you were seen
00:42as a golden child.
00:43Today's show, the 20 most overrated as selected by ESPN Classic.
00:48Overrated what, you ask? Relax.
00:50We'll explain, starting now.
00:58Greg has always said that his main motivation is failure.
01:02To have even the word failure in your mind at any time when you're pursuing a goal, that's a negative.
01:13It's not that Greg Norman didn't win his share of golf tournaments.
01:16It's not that he wasn't number one in the world for six years.
01:20It's that when he lost, it was often a final round flame-outer as the victim of someone's kiss-by
01:26-an-angel shot.
01:27Greg Norman is a guy that had a can't-miss tag, and he missed.
01:31It just appears to me that Greg Norman is a far better player than he allowed himself to be at
01:38times coming down the stretch.
01:41Greg was so good for a while, he truly believed that he could do some of these Superman-type things.
01:46And it kind of got up and bit him in the butt.
01:49That is the shot of Bob Tway out of the bunker.
01:52It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
01:53This is the first of the disasters that ever hit Greg Norman, who was the unluckiest athlete of my time.
02:00All these incredible things kept happening to him.
02:03I mean, these guys beat him with shots that, you know, nobody ever made before or since.
02:07Whoever could have come out of nowhere to beat Norman was going to.
02:12Who next was going to beat Norman, you know?
02:13Was it the guy running the Haagen-Dazs card? Let's let him beat Norman.
02:17He'll be remembered more for his Saturday Slam, where he led the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open,
02:24the PGA,
02:25the third round of all those tournaments, and it only cashed in on the one at the British Open.
02:31Yes, well done.
02:33He's done it at last. Greg Norman, the champion for 1986.
02:37Greg Norman, I think, is one of the greatest golfers of his generation.
02:40Sadly, just could not get his game together to win seven or eight majors.
02:57Totally overrated.
02:58And he finally proved it when he left Boston.
03:00Only when he left Boston did the Red Sox win a championship.
03:02That is not a coincidence.
03:05Mmm.
03:07Yeah, when an athlete leaves the team and they win a championship after,
03:11they're probably overrated.
03:15The Fenway faithful embraced Nomar Garciaparra, certain he would be the one to reverse the curse.
03:21But the slick shortstop nagged by injuries never did.
03:24The Red Sox finally traded him and then proceeded to win the World Series for the first time in 86
03:29years.
03:30It depends which Nomar you're talking about.
03:33The Nomar of 99 looked to me like a surefire Hall of Famer.
03:40But the injuries he's had since then, I think, have knocked him off that track.
03:46Just as a hitter, I thought he was lethal.
03:49And I thought that team fed off him at his peak and prime.
03:52I'm a bit overrated because he started getting hurt.
03:57I have no idea who he is right now.
03:59He has not been able to stand up physically over the course of years as a Derek Jeter or Alex
04:05Rodriguez or even an Omar Vizquel.
04:08Six years ago, he asked me this question.
04:09No.
04:10Yes.
04:11Right now, a bit overrated.
04:14And then Nomar Garciapera, whatever his name is, Garciapera, that's a hard name.
04:22He proved he was overrated by not winning a single playoff series after he left Boston.
04:36Are you A&T?
04:39It's over!
04:40The Rangers win the count!
04:42The Rangers win the count!
04:44The curse is over!
04:45They've done it!
04:46Eighteen.
04:49Mike Keenan, to put it bluntly, a caustic tyrant, was the drought-breaker for New York, coaching the Rangers to
04:55the championship in 1994.
04:57Four teams hired him to repeat that feat.
04:59They're still waiting.
05:02Lounced around way too much.
05:03He almost seemed to be a thing in the butt and a hot potato, somebody who's hard to handle.
05:08Published reports in Vancouver say Mike Keenan is as good as gone.
05:12Florida firing coach Mike Keenan just 15 skates into the season.
05:15On Thursday, the St. Louis Blues agreed.
05:17They fired Mike Keenan as coach and GM.
05:20Mike Keenan has a brilliant mind, but he's a horrible people person.
05:24He has no idea how to deal with players, how to handle players.
05:27So for all his knowledge of hockey, all he produces is controversy and anger and dissension on teams.
05:32Fiery temper, which can turn you off.
05:35But if you really want something badly enough, Keenan's the right guy.
05:38He won a Stanley Cup.
05:40So when you win a championship, it's hard to call you overrated.
05:4717.
05:4817.
05:4917.
05:50I don't know too much about hockey, but I'll take their word for it.
05:54Fabulous career, but in his last couple of big fights, he hasn't gone through that next step to finish the
06:01fight off.
06:02The great ones close the show.
06:0517.
06:07Oscar De La Hoya makes the girls sigh and opponents cry.
06:11He won his first 31 fights, but then he lost four title bouts, and now struggles to be remembered as
06:17more than just a box office pretty player.
06:20Good fighter, not great fighter.
06:23You know, he's not Marvin Hagel, he's not Tommy Hearns, he's not Sugar Ray Leonard.
06:27But who is?
06:28Why is he being held to the standard of the Fab Four?
06:33The guy lost a few times throughout a 10-plus year career.
06:41We're going to call him overrated because he lost to first ballot Hall of Fame boxers.
06:47It's a joke.
06:51I thought that Oscar enjoyed being a celebrity more than he enjoyed being a fighter, because celebrity brought him everything
06:57he loved.
06:58The women, the invitations to the golf courses, the nightclubs.
07:01The guy sells tickets, that's what boxing's all about, selling tickets.
07:06Unbelievable box office attraction, nothing like it, south of the heavyweight division in history.
07:12He became Ricky Martin of boxing.
07:14Was marketed well, fought well, but he was fighting against inferior fighters.
07:21I have nothing to prove.
07:22I've won six world titles and five different weight classes.
07:26What else do I have to prove?
07:28The final chapter hasn't been written, but no matter what, I believe it'll be a legacy of, we're not quite
07:34sure how good Oscar De La Hoya could have been.
07:39Sixteen.
07:40Sixteen.
07:41Sixteen.
07:41There was a definite golf boom following that 97 runaway Masters victory by Tiger Woods.
07:47Tiger Woods, please.
07:48Oh my God.
07:48Back up.
07:49Come on, pull the room.
07:50Give me some more room.
07:50Wait in some room.
07:51Back up.
07:52It was an absolute Tiger-fueled explosion.
07:56Sixteen.
07:56Tiger Woods overrated?
07:58No, this has to be a missed Tiger.
08:01It was supposed to be a sonic boom after Tiger Woods destroyed the Masters field in 1997.
08:07Woods was going to be the game's Pied Piper, but if many joined the parade initially, few stayed in it,
08:12and that boom went bust.
08:14There's no golf boom.
08:16There's no, the number of golf rounds played in 2004 was fewer than they were played in 2000.
08:22It's a piece of marketing nonsense.
08:24Golf in this country has died.
08:33People who play golf have a lot of time to spend.
08:40The participation rates are falling.
08:42Courses are getting plowed up and turned into housing tracks.
08:45Anybody who plays golf now loves golf.
08:47Nobody plays golf now because they like Tiger Woods.
08:50We're no longer in a golf pool, but I don't think it was overrated when Tiger did that at Augusta
08:55in 1997.
08:56Golf became almost the fourth major sport.
09:00I think equipment's the worst it's ever been.
09:03Not one amateur out there knows which club's good for him.
09:05It's just terrible.
09:06People paying $700 or $800 for a golf club, this driver will make you into a better person.
09:12And that was all inspired by Tiger Woods.
09:15How far can you hit the ball?
09:16And I don't know that we've seen the end of that.
09:18Oh, nonsense, of course.
09:19You'd have the most wonderful clubs in the world.
09:21If you can't play, they're no good to you.
09:22Even if you look at the quote-unquote Tiger impact and we still don't see any other blacks on the
09:28PGA Tour,
09:29then, yeah, I think you can say the golf pool was overrated.
09:35Fifteen.
09:36Fifteen.
09:37Fifteen.
09:43Fifteen.
09:45Once it was the most glorious summoning call in sports.
09:48Gentlemen, start your engines.
09:50But them good old boys have usurped the auto racing spotlight.
09:54And the Indy 500, now nothing but a shadow of its former ear-shattering self.
09:59Obviously, the way the race has broken down in the last six or seven years with the split that they've
10:03had,
10:04it really is overrated now.
10:06No longer a big sporting event.
10:08They start bringing in NASCAR, and it's like, well, it's not a once-a-year event anymore.
10:12There's something going on at the track.
10:15It stinks.
10:16It's loud.
10:17It takes forever.
10:18You never know who's leading.
10:20Now Mears goes to the outside, and Rick Mears takes the lead.
10:23Just unbelievable racing.
10:25It's just not the same as when it was anybody who's anybody in open car racing wants to race at
10:30Indy.
10:31It's a great American spectacle, but now, in our time, this day and age, it's still a great event, but
10:36it's overrated.
10:37It's basically a chance for 100,000 Hoosiers to go to an infield and drink some beers, and in the
10:43end, that's the funniest thing of all.
10:45People spend 12 hours drinking beers, and when it ends, what does the winner get?
10:49A glass of milk.
10:50That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
10:52For one day a year, Indianapolis is a complete sewer.
11:01Joe Namath.
11:03Joe Namath, who likes girls.
11:07Joe Namath is both overrated and underrated.
11:09As far as a marketing force and a guy who was the vibrant icon of the 60s, absolutely.
11:15As a player, that was such a short window, and so in that regard, I find him a little overrated.
11:21Hey, who didn't want to be Broadway Joe?
11:24Guarantee the boldest sort of upset, as he did for Super Bowl III, and then deliver.
11:29Joe Namath is a Hall of Famer, but he's remembered more for his high-living, hard-charging ways.
11:35It was like traveling with a rock star.
11:37He just was a magnet at attracting people, and mostly young people.
11:43And talk about excitement and energy.
11:45Wow.
11:46He's kind of the original Dennis Rodman, Terrell Owens, the original marketing publicity guy,
11:53but all-time great football player, absolutely not, so yeah, he's overrated.
11:56He's dissed now because his numbers don't measure up.
11:59It shouldn't be just about numbers.
12:01His numbers didn't measure up then.
12:03It should be about influence.
12:06Joe Willie Namath changed the course of professional football as we know it.
12:10The New York Jets are the world champions.
12:13Joe Namath is not the greatest quarterback to ever play football,
12:17but Joe may have played the most important game to ever be played in football.
12:22That was the 1958 NFL championship.
12:26He dared to guarantee a victory, and he backed it up.
12:29And for that alone, I can't even imagine him being overrated.
12:33This guy had one of the greatest arms, and also one of the greatest bravados.
12:37I mean, this guy turned AFL into the NFL.
12:41His guarantee, his flair, his popularity, all those things.
12:45This guy was a true Hall of Famer and not overrated.
12:54Mike Holmgren did some great things with the Green Bay Packers, brought them back to prominence.
12:59But since he's been in Seattle, he's just been, at best, an average coach.
13:04Right.
13:08The aura and the Lombardi trophy to the Green Bay Packers.
13:11So when he went to Seattle, the flock of Seahawks expected the same kind of delivery.
13:16So far, no dice.
13:18A classic example of a guy who has too much power.
13:21I mean, once he had both hats, he couldn't handle it.
13:24When he had Ron Wolf in Green Bay, oh, he's got a street named after him in Green Bay, and
13:28he was a world championship coach.
13:30He was virtually a product of two human beings.
13:34And that was Brett Favre's gunslinging at his peak and Reggie White's unblockability at his peak.
13:41Those two people made him a hero, made him millions of dollars.
13:47Terribly overrated.
13:52Oh, it means so much to my identity as an American that my rich, pampered golfers can beat the rich,
13:59pampered golfers of Europe.
14:01Wow, that brings out my patriotism.
14:04What tournament is this?
14:06Masters?
14:08Oh, my.
14:10Unbelievable.
14:12My goodness.
14:13What a comeback.
14:15What in the heart.
14:16Oh, please, United States, rah, rah, rah, go rich, pampered golfers, show how superior our country is.
14:24I could not be less interested in the Ryder Cup.
14:27Twelve.
14:29Every two years, golfers from the United States and Europe take the name on my mind, but like...
14:33Ten paces turn and fire their putters.
14:35A winner gets the Ryder Cup.
14:37Hardly anyone used to care, and then patriotism showed its ugly side.
14:41And a lot of people still don't care.
14:43It's overrated because it is an exhibition.
14:46And the reason it's been juiced up to become the Super Bowl of golf is because the PGA of America
14:51makes a ton of money off it.
14:53It's gotten so commercial.
14:54The American public wasn't even interested in it until about ten years ago, and now it's like life or death.
14:59I think it may be overrated to the American golfer right now that competes in it.
15:04I mean, in Europe, it's not overrated.
15:08Harrington adds the final exclamation point to a European domination.
15:13The Ryder Cup has become an every two-year occasion for the United States to get kicked in the teeth
15:18by scruffy Europeans.
15:20The American golfers always act like self-centered jerks, and the Europeans actually bond and exceed the sum of their
15:28parts and win.
15:29I remember watching Sergio running around the greens, jumping up in the air, looked like he was going to slam
15:34dunk on some holes.
15:36Garcia getting a little air time.
15:38It's become rude, crude, and it's exaggerated a lot by the press.
15:44The Ryder Cup brings out emotions in players that you just have to brush off as being just that one
15:50week.
15:50It's great golf, and match play is an exciting format, but I think it's overrated.
15:5711-11.
16:00Left center field.
16:02Grissom on the run.
16:03The team of the 90s has its world championship.
16:0911-11.
16:10Although they're not the Buffalo Bills because they have won one, you certainly can make an argument that the Braves
16:15needed another one to sort of validate their greatness in the 90s.
16:22In the summer, the grass would turn green and the Braves would win.
16:25And in the autumn, the grass would die, and so would the Braves.
16:28Look, they won their division every season from 1991 to 2005, but they won the World Series only once.
16:34When you do what they've done for that period of time, it's hard to say you're overrated.
16:39Overrated.
16:40Because you've got to seal the deal.
16:41They only did it one time.
16:43Other thing about the Braves, they've been eliminated so many times in the postseason at home.
16:49You don't see a sold-out stadium there.
16:51The fans aren't good baseball fans.
16:53They win every year, but you know they're not going to win at all.
16:56I mean, I think they're the biggest teasers in sports.
17:00Uh, didn't you have something to do with that if you played on the team?
17:06Am I missing something?
17:08I look at their starting pitching and think, as great as they were in the regular season,
17:12they could have been and should have been better in postseason play.
17:20Mookie hit a slow grounder down the first baseline.
17:23Went over and bent over to get the ball, and they just had nothing but error, you know?
17:30Little roller up along first.
17:44Overrated.
17:45Get over.
17:45That's not the reason they lost.
17:47Over it.
17:48Tag.
17:51Game 6, 1986 World Series.
17:56Dave Henderson's 10th inning lead-off homer helped Boston take a two-run lead over the Mets.
18:03They are now one out of the way from a World Series champion.
18:07It was pretty sad at the time.
18:08We were pretty down.
18:09And somebody said, let's put on some, uh, rally football helmets on.
18:15Lined into left field.
18:16Base hit.
18:17And the Mets are still alive.
18:19And all of a sudden, these things start to transpire.
18:23Next thing you know, bang, bang.
18:25Here comes Carter.
18:26You win as a team, and you lose as a team, which is an old cliche, so a lot of
18:31pieces did not fall into place in that inning.
18:34The pitch gets away!
18:36Gets away!
18:37High game!
18:38High game!
18:40And of course, you have the ball through Buckner's legs, and that's the focal point.
18:45Little roller up along first.
18:47Behind the bag!
18:48It gets through Buckner!
18:50Some people say he wasn't going to beat Mookie Wilson to the bag anyway.
18:54The game was tied at that point anyway.
18:56I still think, though, it is a calamitous mistake that will never be forgotten.
19:02And for that reason, I don't think it's overrated.
19:04It continued the Boston Curse.
19:07It haunted that city for years.
19:08No, that's not overrated at all.
19:10A lot of people remember it.
19:12A lot of people talk about it.
19:13And there's players that are better than me that, you know, most people don't even know who they are.
19:19People know who I am.
19:23It's not the reason I lost any what he's saying is a casual who doesn't do their research.
19:30Nine, nine, nine.
19:32Nine, nine.
19:34Maybe I'm different than most people.
19:36I just think your coach should know the names of his players.
19:40One of the most overrated people who ever walked through the door of the NFL.
19:43Nine, nine.
19:45Steve Spurrier swaggered into the NFL from Florida,
19:48only to learn there's a big difference between Saturday football and Sunday football.
19:53He brought his fun-and-gun offense to the Redskins,
19:55but after two losing seasons, retreated for South Carolina.
20:00Steve Spurrier may go down as one of the most overrated coaches
20:04to come into the NFL because what he thought, like some college guys,
20:07that his system can work in the NFL, and it simply doesn't.
20:10His solution to protection problems with his offense was to tell his offensive line coach,
20:16just block him up, block him up.
20:18He got there, and I don't think he understood the rules.
20:20I think he thought it was his show, and it was, he looked down, and there was Mr. Snyder,
20:24and it was Mr. Snyder's show.
20:25And it was just a bad fit from the beginning.
20:27Spurrier thought he could bring his scheme from Florida in this wide-open passing game,
20:31but there were no Vanderbilts on the schedule.
20:34I wonder to this day how he's been such a great college football coach,
20:38and I can only assume it's because he just has out-talented people.
20:46Steve Spurrier would never be overrated solely because he's the closest thing to Bear Bryant
20:52with a pulse in college football.
20:54The University of Florida was not really on the football map until he got there.
20:58He more than likely will turn South Carolina into something it's never been.
21:03Despite his meltdown in the NFL, most people know how good a college football coach he is.
21:08What the NFL did is it separated Spurrier from football coach to college football coach.
21:20Now let's go to the envelopes and see who the big winner is today.
21:23The epitome of overrated is anything related to the NBA's draft lottery.
21:31The NBA draft lottery, a souped-up version of bingo,
21:34the future of franchises at the mercy of ping-pong balls.
21:38The only guarantee is that the high picks come with no guarantees.
21:43It used to be Jordan, Ewing, you knew who was coming out of school,
21:47you knew who was going to be in the lottery,
21:49it just doesn't have kind of that lure where you're able to watch them from college
21:53where they develop and learn skills, and I definitely think it's overrated.
21:57The Washington Wizards select Kwame Brown.
22:01In recent years, it hasn't had the same impact
22:04because now you're drafting high school players like Kwame Brown
22:07and you don't know what you're getting.
22:09And with the influx of foreign players, you're like, who?
22:12You don't know who they are.
22:14The Cleveland Cavaliers select...
22:19As they continue to come out early and high schoolers and grade schoolers go into the NBA,
22:23then it loses something.
22:26It ain't overrated.
22:28If your team's in it, then there's an Akeem Olajuwon or a Shaquille O'Neal out there.
22:34The actual draft lottery was a good thing.
22:36It kept teams from finishing the year and trying to lose games.
22:40But the draft lottery program is maybe the worst thing on television outside of The Apprentice.
22:53Here comes Michael Jordan for his third and final dunk.
23:01Oh, I love it. That is Eric Jordan at his best.
23:05It used to be great. It used to be everybody wanted to be in it.
23:08It was a marquee event.
23:09And now it's like, it's more marquee not to be in it.
23:13Hey, remember when MJ and Dominique went cloud hopping?
23:16When Doc Dipsy dude?
23:18Those were the days, my friend.
23:19But now, the marquee names skip the NBA slam dunk contest.
23:23And what used to be a glorious slam spectacle is just cold soup.
23:28Back in the days when you had Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins,
23:32it was a happening.
23:35It was an event.
23:40When the art of the dunk was first shining through in this country,
23:44it was fun to watch.
23:45It was exhilarating to watch.
23:46Do or die right here.
23:49After that, it deteriorated because the best players wouldn't go near it,
23:53didn't have any use for it.
23:55And it's now just become something to fill up a long weekend.
24:00The slam dunk contest is the dumbest thing in sports.
24:02The NBA should get rid of it.
24:04Everybody can slam dunk now.
24:05It's boring.
24:06There isn't anything more they can do.
24:12There's only so many dunks that you can see.
24:14So many times you can see a player blindfolded.
24:18When you have no names, even though they may do nice dunks,
24:21when you have guys that most fans don't know about,
24:25it's not as exciting.
24:26A great contest would be an 18-foot jump shot contest.
24:29How about that?
24:30They couldn't have that because nobody in the NBA could do that.
24:33Everybody can dunk.
24:36Hopefully it can get back to that prime time when we used to see the best dunkers compete in.
24:42Oh, yeah!
24:47Six.
24:48Six.
24:49Weber to the right side with belts on him.
24:51Weber in the corner.
24:52And now he's called what?
24:54Michigan can't take a timeout.
24:55They don't have a timeout.
24:56Six.
24:57When he called the infamous timeout at the end of that game,
25:00initially you would think that was just an aberration.
25:03But what he did at Michigan was not an aberration.
25:06That was the essence of who he is as a player.
25:10He doesn't want the ball in the clutch.
25:12He'll choke in the clutch.
25:15Six.
25:16Chris Weber starred with Michigan's Fab Five and for his NBA career is averaging 22 points and 10 boards.
25:22Yet the perception is of a player who runs from the spotlight at crunch time.
25:30Chris Weber was recognized from a ninth grade home as being a phenom.
25:35I remember people saying that this guy was going to be the next evolution in terms of power forward.
25:41Weber has a triple-double.
25:43He was on the level of a Shaquille O'Neal, someone that would be the backbone of the team
25:48and be a guy that won a lot of championships, and it hasn't happened.
25:51He is as gifted as any player except Michael Jordan I've ever seen.
25:57He never even got to a finals.
26:01But to be fair to Chris Weber, they got robbed in 0-2, so.
26:07He could turn the crowd off.
26:09But under pressure, when the heat is on, he does not want the basketball in his hands.
26:16He had the Kings on the brink of a championship.
26:21Double-A title game, he calls it a timeout.
26:23I mean, there's something missing there.
26:25Something in the gene pool was missing.
26:27I don't care how many numbers he puts up, until I see some rings on his fingers, I think he's
26:31overrated.
26:32He needs to overcome that and do something big time, down the stretch, in a meaningful playoff game,
26:39for him to overcome that tag.
26:43Five, five, five.
26:45We're going to get him on the run, we're going to go, go, go, go,
26:47and we are going to stop until we go to that goal line.
26:53Locker room pep talks?
26:55Newt Rockne's fevered exhortations are but a faded soundtrack now.
27:00And the days when Eric Parsegan and Lou Holtz shook down the thunder are long gone.
27:06Notre Dame.
27:11College kids today, they don't know what Eric Parsegan did.
27:15They're not that embraced with what Lou Holtz accomplished.
27:18Only one way you get respect and that's by looking at somebody in the eye for 60 minutes
27:22and say, hey baby, here I am now.
27:24If you were born in the 80s, you're looking at Notre Dame and you're going,
27:27hmm, they're on NBC, but what else they got?
27:32Notre Dame football overrated.
27:33And you're talking about a kid who used to write Notre Dame on his books.
27:38It's a program with plenty of Heismans and legends and ghosts.
27:41But come on, you've got to uphold your tradition.
27:46Let's go!
27:47What they don't have is that charisma.
27:50They don't have that recruiting ability that they had before.
27:53Well, I tell you, you talk about something that they haven't seen at Notre Dame ever in the history.
27:57It's been almost two decades now since they've won a bowl game.
28:01Their last national championship, their last claimed national championship was 88.
28:11When...
28:13I don't even know who was there.
28:15Jim Brown?
28:15Tim Brown?
28:24Multiple championships.
28:24Multiple championships.
28:26They've got a good coach now in Charlie Weiss who may change a little bit,
28:30but I don't see them getting that funnel of talent
28:33where every kid, Catholic or non-Catholic, wanted to go to Notre Dame in the past.
28:38Not the powerhouse program it once was.
28:40Clearly overrated.
28:41Dramatically overrated.
28:42It's overrated.
28:44And I don't know why.
28:51The Quebec Nordiques are very proud to select Eric Lindros.
28:57Four.
28:59Quebec may have drafted him, but Philadelphia is where Eric Lindros went.
29:04Stanley Cups were supposed to follow.
29:06That didn't happen.
29:07Touted as the next Gretzky, the next Lemieux, he was neither.
29:12Because of the tremendous skills and the size of Eric Lindros,
29:16you just saw so much potential out there.
29:18He was just an amazing talent.
29:20It's Michael Jordan on us.
29:22There is no way you could come away from the game and not say,
29:25man, that guy is the best player I have ever seen.
29:31They used to call him the next because he was going to be the next Gwayne Gretzky.
29:35He's never really been able to understand why when people embraced Wayne Gretzky so much,
29:41why they've never embraced him in that same way.
29:47In the crusade of the big moment, Lindros can shy away.
29:54Whether that's due to injury, whether that's due to fear of hurting himself again,
29:59or whether that's just something missing, I would opt for something missing.
30:03Overrated.
30:08Here's this guy, the biggest, most powerful figure on the rink,
30:12who's at the same time the most vulnerable and potentially tragic figure on the rink.
30:17I don't know if I've ever seen a player get so much attention for not playing.
30:24He's never scored 50 goals.
30:26He's never won a Stanley Cup.
30:28He's never had a full season.
30:30And yet, this is the second Gretzky.
30:32This ain't even the first Lindros.
30:34He is the most overrated, spoiled, demanding athlete of the modern era.
30:44That's Johnson in motion.
30:47He's got it.
30:48He's gone.
30:49At USC against Northwestern in the road.
30:53He was a man among boys.
30:58Keyshawn Johnson caught passes and threw himself confidence.
31:01For all the squawk, he did walk the walk in the NFL.
31:04He finished his career with over 10,500 receiving yards and 64 touchdowns.
31:09Yet, critics claim something.
31:10Got a ring, too.
31:12Everything was still missing.
31:14When you listen to Keyshawn talk, he puts himself in the Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens class.
31:22Michael Irvin, don't go and tell them I need to be on the football field.
31:24They know.
31:24And he is not in that class whatsoever.
31:28Most football players think they're better than they are.
31:30He was never a great receiver.
31:32I mean, he was a possession receiver his entire career.
31:36Keyshawn's the only possession receiver.
31:41Johnson was a great marketer of himself.
31:43Wrote a book, give me the damn ball.
31:45When they throw him the damn ball, he would catch it all the time.
31:49His mouth was better than his hands.
31:51I don't think Keyshawn's overrated.
31:53He still did take Tampa Bay to the Super Bowl.
31:57He still did some good things for the New York Jets.
32:02He was never a world-beater, but he had a good career.
32:04He lasted a long time.
32:05And he did the stuff that a lot of receivers wanted.
32:09I mean, how many people block as well as he does?
32:12And Keyshawn did that consistently through his career.
32:14I wouldn't say that he's overrated.
32:16I think the year where he caught a hundred and some balls and only had one touchdown,
32:20I think people were saying that Keyshawn was overrated more so than ever in that year.
32:27As a football player, he's certainly overrated.
32:29Terribly overrated.
32:30He goes right to the overrated category.
32:39Identify the best college football player?
32:41Not possible.
32:42But the Heisman voters persist in trying,
32:45forgetting that an Eric Crouch and other winners should be judged on what they did,
32:48not what they might do in the NFL.
32:50As pros, many have been, well, not good.
32:54So the Heisman Trophy is overrated.
32:56Okay.
32:57If you walk around the street and ask someone who won the Heisman Trophy last year,
33:01I think you'd get a lot of blank stares.
33:04It was mad.
33:06Most people would say overrated.
33:08Then why do we give it so much play during the year?
33:10Why are we always arguing on TV and on radio shows and why our fans are arguing?
33:14Because it's fun.
33:16Look out.
33:17Rod Day.
33:17He needs 20 plays.
33:19He's across the 40.
33:20Open up the history book.
33:22It deserves everything it gets.
33:23It's the bathing suit.
33:24If I listen.
33:31Identify the best quarterback.
33:34Way to pick on Carson Palmer.
33:37He's been in the league two years.
33:39Let's pick on him.
33:42And he had a very good career, too, after this.
33:48On an undefeated football team and zero in on him.
33:52And it's a joke.
33:53We have turned it into a beauty pageant.
33:57It's no longer about the most outstanding player in college football.
34:02It has now become the most compelling and marketable player on the best team.
34:07I think it's the most overrated thing in sports.
34:10Heisman's a great college award for a college player.
34:13Let's leave poor Eric Crouch alone.
34:15The Heisman Trophy does not guarantee anything but that bust.
34:19Welcome back to Who's Number One Most Overrated.
34:23Let's recap what we've seen so far.
34:25It's not good.
34:26The big number one of the overrated right here, right now.
34:38Nowadays, to win in a sport like tennis, you have to be room service, skim milk, 24 hours a day,
34:47dedicated.
34:48Anna Kournikova, the epitome of the fantasy figure.
34:52She fueled the testosterone of males young and old and made a pile of money along the way.
34:56Although she was once ranked number eight in the world, she never won a single WTA singles title in more
35:03than 100 trials.
35:05I know she couldn't play tennis.
35:07She never won a final of a significant event.
35:10That said, for five to six years, she dominated the imaginations of young men all over the world.
35:17How can that be overrated?
35:18I was playing against Kournikova, and a couple of these British boys were yelling,
35:23Kournikova, come on, Kournikova.
35:26She is a breathtakingly beautiful woman.
35:29You know, it's hard to get past that when you're a spectator and you're watching her play tennis.
35:33It's because she just looks great.
35:35Good looking.
35:36This was lust.
35:38Good looking.
35:39And she ran with it as far as she could run with it and ran right out of tennis.
35:44And people said, oh, what a waste.
35:45And I think she never looked back because I don't think she really cared about winning tennis tournaments to start
35:50with.
35:51It wouldn't matter how I dress if I wouldn't be playing tennis.
35:53Nobody would look at me if I wouldn't be playing tennis.
35:55So, of course, I'm playing tennis here.
35:58Anyone who thinks Anna Kournikova was a fraud from the beginning is mistaken.
36:02You don't make the semifinals of Wimbledon as a teenager without having some skill.
36:07You can't do that just because you're blonde and cute.
36:09And she was the real deal.
36:12She had the goods and she was very hungry to be a great tennis champion.
36:16She lost her way a little.
36:19Everybody wants to buy her clothing.
36:21Everybody wants to buy her calendars.
36:23Wherever she goes, she sells it out.
36:26She is an icon.
36:26She was able to become Paris Hilton with a tennis racket.
36:31And she got it before we got it.
36:33She's made a boatload of money.
36:35And she's what she wants to be, which is very famous.
36:38And she's fabulous.
36:40And she lives this glamorous lifestyle.
36:43She can make the $8 million either on the court or she can make it off the court.
36:46Well, it's guaranteed versus having to go earn it.
36:49What would you do?
36:51The sad part of this whole thing is that somewhere along the line, I would think she'd have to give
36:58some thought.
37:00Did I reach my potential?
37:02And if she really told herself the true side of the story, she never did reach her potential.
37:09In the end, it's a pity that Kornikovic couldn't win one stinking tournament.
37:14Just one.
37:15She's tennis's answer to Britney Spears.
37:17It's very much a 21st century success story without much substance in the middle.
37:25Style over substance.
37:28When the hoopla far exceeds the result, when the reality doesn't match the predictions, that's when overrated is created.
37:35And once an athlete is labeled overrated, few are able to change that perception.
37:40Let's ask those who have more than a passing acquaintance with overrated.
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